New Ulm weekly review., 1887-10-26
Heard On The Square.

Heard On The Square.
The members Of the council are allin
favor Of building bridge across the
Minnesota river. The only difference
of opinion in that body is as to whether
the bridge should be an ordinary one
or contain draw.
For the purpose Of getting an express
sion of public opinion the council has
resolved to call a citizens mass meeting
to be held Friday evening, Nov. 4th, at
Turner Hall, for the purpose of hear
ing what kind of bridge the citizens
wish them to contract for.
The members of the council do not
care to assume che responsibility Of
building an ordinary bridge as long as
the river is declared to be navigable
and very properly ask the citizens to
assume the responsibility, if there is
any.
This call of citizens meeting furn.
! ishes a good precedent and hope it
will be resorted to whenever the coun.
Gil desires to expend any large sum of
the city funds for improvements.
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In his zeal to get the council to con-
sent to the building of bridge at once,
Mr.. E. G. PAIL offered to assume all
responsibilities, but the council con-
cluded that it was wrong to have one
man shoulder everything and so took
the course indicated above.
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Now that we are to have steamer I
hope that the young men of this town
will join the department. and assist in
organizing number one hook and ladder
and hose companies. The department.
has experienced a great deal of trouble
in securing members because the ap-
paratus was hard to handle. As this
objection has now been met there is no
reason why New Ulm should not pos
sess as good department as any city
! OF it's size.
Messrs. w. R. Bagley and J. v.
Fredrickson of Madison, who were in
the city last week, pride themselves on
playing fine game Of peenukle. Els.
pecially the former. They hunted
around town for victim and finally in
duced their host, Mr.. S. D. Peterson to
play with them. Mr.. Peterson did not
like to play against the champions, but
finally a compromise was made by
Messrs. Peterson and Fredickson play
ing against Mr.. Bagley and another ex-
pert peenukle player.
They played for four successive even
ings. The result being in favor of
Messrs. Peterson and Fredrickson, their
opponents loosing every game. Mr..
Bagley has resolved never to play the
game any more and left town very
quietly at the confusion of the tourna
ment.
1 Mr.. Rudolph Kiesling, who has been
travelling in Iowa in the interests of the
Empire Mill Co., informs US that it IS a
q pleasure to sell -four in that state He
says that all that is necessary to secure
orders is to hand out q card stating that
| he represents New Ulm Mill and the
merchant is only to willing to purchase.
The New Ulm Mills receive from 5 to
Is cents barrel more for their flour
than any other mills in this State. This
4 is due to the fact that thew use none bu,
the best hard wheat in grinding. while
the larger mills in this state are com.
PEELED to grind large quantities Of sof'
wheat, as there is not enough Of the
harder variety in the state to supply
= them all.
i, Some of our young men are talking
j, Of renting room and fitting it up for ]
, free reading room and library. The
idea being that youngg men generally
!. would patronize the place rather than
spent their time in Saloons q billiard